Art Without Teeth

One of the biggest problems art is facing today is the definition of art in people’s minds. Too many people have been misled into believing that truly good art must consist of ambiguous abstractions that are somehow “timeless” – that art must be exclusively introspective, lacking context, and dedicated solely …

The Urthona Revolution

Say, didn’t you have this story lying around called The Urthona Revolution? Yes… it was a good story, but for a number of reasons never turned into a game. And didn’t you keep complaining about wanting to do some kind of episodic storytelling? Yes, because I felt it would do …

A Stray to Botaram

Oddly enough, occasional donations have started coming in. Not many (I think there were four so far) – I don’t want you to imagine that I’m starting to making a profit off this website – but still more than in the last ten years. And I appreciate these very, very …

Patchouli

Haven’t uploaded the patch yet, mostly because today was a confusing day and I haven’t had enough time yet. Also, we’re going to go see Prince of Persia in a few minutes, so I won’t be home for a few hours. But I did fix everything, and will upload the …

We’re almost there…

It would appear Phenomenon 32 has one last problem, though it’s a rare one. On some people’s computers (and this is likely to be hardware-specific), in some levels the player’s ship falls through the ground in the first few milliseconds of loading. So most of you can play the game …

Phenomenon 32 and other news

So, with the game out for less than a day, we have learned the following: The game probably doesn’t run on Windows 7. Still experimenting with this. The file hosts sometimes don’t work properly. I had to remove the FileFront download because the files were corrupted, and Filedropper seems to …

William Bond

Here’s something different for today: the last lines of “William Bond”, one of William Blake’s poems from the Pickering Manuscript. I don’t know about you, but they make me shiver with their beauty every time I read them, especially the last two. I thought Love livd in hot sun shine …

Writing, feeding cats, and stuff

That’s pretty much what we’ve been doing. Made some nice progress on the book  – more pieces of the puzzles are in place. (Want a teaser? One bit that I wrote is 9 pages long and stretches over 10.000 years. The next bit is 10 pages and stretches over no …